Accor plans more hotels in RI
Accor plans more hotels in RI
JAKARTA (JP): Accor Asia Pacific Corporation, one of the
world's leading hotel management firms, plans to expand its
Indonesian network to 25 star-rated hotels with some 6,000 rooms
by the end of this year.
Company president in Indonesia, Marc A. Steinmeyer, said
Saturday that Accor would open later this year five hotels under
the Novotel brand.
Accor, partly owned by Paris-based hotel management giant
Accor SA, operates hotels under several brand names, including
Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure and Ibis.
Steinmeyer said the five new Novotel hotels would be located
in Surakarta in Central Java, Yogyakarta, Bogor in West Java,
Batam in Riau, and Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara.
"The new Novotels, except Novotel Yogyakarta which will open
late this year, are scheduled to open by June 1997," he said.
He said the hotel in Lombok was owned by PT Lombok Tourism
Development Corporation and the Rajawali Group; Novotel Solo in
Surakarta by PT Sunmotor; Novotel Bogor by the Aspac Group; and
Novotel Yogyakarta by the PSP Group which also owns the Ibis
Slipi.
Like the Novotel Benoa in Bali, the hotels in Bogor and Lombok
would be classified as resort hotels, he added.
Accor currently runs seven Novotels in Indonesia located in
Surabaya in East Java; Bukittinggi in West Sumatra; Bali; Medan
in North Sumatra; Jambi in Jambi; Toraja in South Sulawesi and
Manado in North Sulawesi. Currently, the company also runs seven
properties under the Ibis name and four others under Mercure.
"We also intend to run a five-star Sofitel in Jakarta within
the next few years," Steinmeyer said.
Accor has become one of the largest hotel chains in the Asia-
Pacific region, with the biggest growth record in Indonesia in
addition to China and India. The company's first hotel in
Indonesia was the Ibis Kemayoran opened in 1994.
A number of international hotel management firms have entered
Indonesia, operating medium scale and luxury hotels to provide
more accommodation alternatives.
In addition to Accor, leading overseas hotel management chains
in Indonesia include Sheraton with a total of some 3,500 rooms,
Hyatt and Shangri-la with some 2,500 rooms each. (icn)